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The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient, #2)

Helen Hoang

Start date: May 7, 2019

Finish date: May 8, 2019

Why we're reading this: 2019 Reading Challenge
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Jun 07, 2019 namericanwordcat rated it really liked it

Shelves: contemporary-romance, marriage-of-con, kind-hero, brothers, slow-seduction, contemporary-romance-series, neurodivergent, 4-star-romance, arranged-marriage, grief

I was charmed by Khai and Esme. I love all the families here.

Esme is lovely and brave. Watching her fall in love with Khai is great.

I love a marriage of connivence kind of plot and tie that in with a celebration of immigrants and I am in.

Esme has her own journey of finding her value and Khai's in finding his value as well around the depth of his emotions though they are processed differently than others.

Hoang does a good job in avoiding pitfalls in this story and the writing is crisp and eng ...more

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May 11, 2019 Sera rated it really liked it

4.5 stars

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Jun 14, 2019 Shan ~A~ rated it liked it

Shelves: single-parent, new-adult, borrowed-hoopla, romance, in-series-or-trilogy, erotic, virgin, audio, back-to-school

Khai and Esme had double the barriers between then Michael and Stella did. If everyone would have been honest the barrier wouldn't have been there.

Khai has autism, which no one told Esme until he mentioned, but it still wasn't explained to her what that meant. So there were misunderstandings constantly between them.

Esme is not as educated as she leads Khai to believe, but it still wouldn't have been a problem if it was explained at someone.

Those two things were used too often as reason for co ...more

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Jun 26, 2019 Reyna Mass rated it it was amazing

Absolutely LOVED! I could not put it down!

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Jun 14, 2020 K rated it really liked it

Really enjoyable, very sexy, and a great heroine. My only gripe is that the dad storyline really gets the short end of the stick in terms of getting tied up well.

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